Where is Anthony Fauci?

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The short answer is that he is now doing what many former government ideologues do in order to reinvent themselves: they go into academia.

Like many other partisans who take such posts at university centers and institutes, this unfortunately involves preaching his ideology to susceptible young adults in college, medical school, and public policy.

I say “susceptible” because universities trade on perceived authority, prestige and titles. And because universities also hold out rewards and punishments — grades, degrees, financial aid, recommendations and careers — the students are therefore conditioned to lower any skepticism, and accept direction and ideology, and in the process, adapt their beliefs and behavior.

Ironically, this is exactly what Fauci’s COVID program was ultimately about.

Whatever your views are about what was called a pandemic; and whatever your opinion may be about vaccines, it is important to realize that Fauci’s original white paper published at the NIH (National Institutes of Health) had nothing to do per se with medicine, or vaccines, viruses, pandemics or health. His white paper — almost entirely forgotten or never even seen — asserts the necessity of controlling mass human behavior.

That indeed was the essence of the COVID program, with its new vocabulary of “lockdowns,” ‘shelter in place,” “social distancing,” “staying safe” and more, including testing, tracing, tracking and reporting.

In addition, it was used as a way to suppress speech, as former White House advisor Dr. Scott Atlas, has repeatedly, and courageously, reminded the public. Indeed, Atlas was recently at the University of Chicago Law school speaking at a conference organized by student political conservatives, and his speech is worth reading.

It is only natural that Fauci is now at a university, as they were not only at the forefront of COVID lockdown hysteria and mass vaccination, but profiteered from it, including from Biden's nearly $2 Trillion COVID "relief aid." They still will not face contrary scientific evidence, or admit mistakes or wrongdoing, and are indeed ready to roll out their pandemic protocols again, if directed by global institutions, or as part of larger partisan cooperation.

I won’t burden readers with the readily available and extensive public domain information that traces Fauci’s career, and his work in the Obama administration on virus “gain of function” research, and what its implications are that further indict that administration.

What is worth pointing out, however, included at the end of this essay*, is Fauci's astonishing admission concerning the ideological objectives of the virus program: “radically change” human behavior. This includes how people live, work, move and travel so as not to “perturb the environment.”

Fauci’s vision is of a radically less populated planet, with human movement highly curtailed in order to reduce environmental impact (the uses of “remote learning” and of course mail-in ballots, were early applications, as is the now de rigueur use of “Zoom” meetings. If you’ve been arguing live in a courtroom recently, you’ll notice that you’re largely alone, and that nearly everyone else still attends by remote video. What this does to law is troubling, and also partly explains the assumed logic of AI: you don't need people).

Fauci’s paper argues not only for levels of population that must be reduced, but the entire industrial infrastructure of global economics must be altered. It is a classic utopian delusion based on an equally detached, and deceptive, ideology. As Karl Mannheim discussed in his original 1946 Ideology and Utopia, ideologies are mental fictions whose function is to veil the true nature of a given society. They originate unconsciously in the minds of those who seek to stabilize a social order. Utopias are wish dreams that inspire the collective action of opposition groups which aim at the entire transformation of society.

This larger conceptual and policy motivation—long articulated by the UN, the NAS, which argues that the “affluent” are eroding the Earth’s resources; and progressive foundations like the UK Wellcome Trust that funds “demographic surveillance”--stems centrally from “Green” ideology, including deindustrialization, carbon neutrality, and so-called “anarcho-primitivism,” which regards wholesale modification to nothing less than the “infrastructures of human existence" as Fauci puts it in his NIH white paper. This is apparently to regain a previous, pre-modern state of nature, thought to be in equilibrium. This objective of course, is accomplished, as economist Thomas Sowell describes, by society's intellectuals, who know better than you do.

As the progressive Left ramps up its virus fear mongering again (in the short-term, to claw back federal research funding), and desperately seeks to regain political office and political control, Fauci’s original ideological policy paper is worth keeping in mind as a political risk profoundly greater than any virus. Who and what should otherwise be pursued in law, readers likely appreciate. Any potential resolution, however, could be forestalled, or foreclosed, by negative outcomes in the midterms.

Matthew G. Andersson is a former aerospace CEO and law and policy author. He has been featured in the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the National Academies of Science where he discussed the ramifications of Covid policy and air travel. He has testified before the U.S. Senate, and is a graduate of the University of Chicago.

*From Anthony Fauci's “Emerging Pandemic Diseases: How We Got to COVID-19:”

“Living in greater harmony with nature will require changes in human behavior as well as other radical changes that may take decades to achieve: rebuilding the infrastructures of human existence, from cities to homes to workplaces, to water and sewer systems, to recreational and gatherings venues.

In such a transformation we will need to prioritize changes in those human behaviors that constitute risks.

Among the most important factors are those associated with human behaviors, e.g., population growth, crowding, human movement, and many others, including behaviors that either perturb the environment or result in new human created ecologic niches.

These reflect the extraordinary importance of human population growth and movement.”

David M. Morens, Anthony S.

Fauci, Office of the Director, National

Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases,

National Institutes of Health, Bethesda,

MD, USA., “Emerging Pandemic Diseases:

How We Got to Covid19

Image: White House public domain photo // enhanced